funnel
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Luxury tax penalties from clubs that exceed the thresholds funnel back to low-revenue clubs through revenue sharing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Alphabet is instead choosing to funnel resources to its Google Cloud business, which Nathanson believes is a more profitable strategy than “chasing frontier leadership at any cost.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
These areas are used to strong winds at this time of year but if the windy conditions funnel through the central lowlands there could be some disruption.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
An investigation found that the team had facilitated outside payments to superstar Kawhi Leonard, designed to funnel extra money beyond what the league’s salary cap allows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was not the stranded ship that was sinister, nor the crying gulls, nor the thin black funnel pointing to the shore.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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The residents soon suspected the funnels contained some kind of herbicide that was slowly killing the tree - a suspicion also shared by arborists who came to examine it.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But versatility is also a lost art — collateral damage during the construction of the pipeline that directly funnels social media stars to the screen.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
A more moderate Santa Ana wind event typically funnels gusts through canyons, but isn’t powerful enough to climb mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Marketing shifted from campaign bursts to always‑on funnels and A/B testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Black smoke began to billow out of the red, white, and blue funnels.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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The owners allegedly underreported how much they paid their employees by more than $100,000 each year and funneled profits through mortgage payments and investments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Earlier this year, Lewin funneled $3.8 billion to a small arm of the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quadrupling the budget of the agency.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
He funneled his fascination into a science-fiction YouTube series about a seemingly endless universe where mundanity meets monsters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Those institutional orders will get funneled through S&P Global’s Equity Bookbuild platform.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
And it funneled most of the money to the Dear Leader.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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At the time, Nasa described pyrocumulonimbus as "the fire-breathing dragon of clouds, external" as they funnelled a smoke-like chimney into the earth's atmosphere while hurling thunderbolts, wind and rain.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Much of England's creative work under Tuchel is funnelled through Anderson and Kane, but Ghana's players went man to man to keep them quiet.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
It is also unclear how much daily imported energy China is using right away, and how much is being funnelled into its oil reserves, says Hansen.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Rijkenberg told parliament the money received from the United States was funnelled into the account of Eswatini's disaster agency, NDMA.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
A basket funnelled fireplace, twigs of juniper snapping in it, in a ground-floor room opening on to a great harbour.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Working into the wee hours of the morning, he has flagged about 7,000 scam profiles, including many funneling applicants to those roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
With American refiners funneling the fuel oil into international markets, the domestic supply has dwindled, driving up prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has complained that Chinese companies are funneling their goods through other countries, such as sending nearly finished clothes through third countries for final touches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Defense Department has an office staffed with bankers and other specialists dedicated to funneling the money to the right projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Dad was in the kitchen, funneling dishes into the dishwasher as fast as they came.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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He said high pressure over Europe was funnelling hot air north from northern Africa, with the weather system hindering cloud formation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Those grants and loans, together with the clean energy tax credits that are also part of the IRA, have been funnelling billions of new federal and private dollars into developing clean energy.
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
Last week, a federal court in St Louis indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly being part of a long-running conspiracy aimed at extorting funds from US companies and funnelling money to Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
Helsinki says Moscow is funnelling them to the border, a charge the Kremlin denies.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2023
"It's all right fellows," he roared down the shaft, funnelling his hands.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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